Jeff Dunlop wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 MB> If there is no local DHCP server, some machine on the local segment --
 MB> almost always the router -- is responsible for encapsulating the request
 MB> and passing it on to the appropriate DHCP server as normal traffic.
 JD> Is this something that's generally on or off by default? In
 JD> this particular instance, I have a multi-segment LAN with a
 JD> router connected to the Internet. One NT server has four
 JD> boards in it and acts as an intra-office router, and the
 JD> other NT servers each have a single board. If one of the
 JD> single-board servers is the DHCP server, will the DHCP
 JD> request get routed through the NT box? Through the router
 JD> onto the Internet?
Not by default, no.  You have to configure every router in the system to at 
least know explicitly the address of the DHCP server.
 JD> That also raises one more question. Assume the 4-board
 JD> server is the DHCP server. It has an IP pool and the
 JD> netmask. Does it infer from which board a request comes in
 JD> on what subnet to assign to the requesting node? 
You should be able to do that, yes.
 
-- Mike
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